On 10 July 2014 23:24, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:13:14PM +0000, via Digitalmars-d wrote: >> On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 22:03:31 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> >Am I the only one who thinks "Responsive Web" sites, with their >> >characteristic "Replace all meaningful information with wasted space, >> >meaningless photos, and trite slogans in giant text", are an >> >absolutely horrible design that do more to drive people away and >> >trigger their "this looks like an ad, I'll subconsciously ignore it" >> >instinct? >> >> I dislike 'em, but survive if it is limited to the frontpage. Meaning: >> I desperately look for a sensible link in the visual mess of >> non-information. I also get the idea that they probably don't really >> have anything to offer and hired an ad company with an incompetent web >> designer to do it who arrived at the design by buying a premade page >> from some other's company's catalogue, then replaced the photos and >> charged a fortune for it... OR worse: that they are using a PHP-based >> CMS. Then I start to feel sorry for them and put all my skepticism >> aside for the benefit of the doubt and hope that I at least find a >> sensible pdf-file in there somewhere. > > I used to love pdfs in blissfully ignorance... until I recently looked > up the format. You wouldn't believe this, but did you know that it's > actually possible to embed a *video* in a pdf file? Embed another pdf > inside a pdf in a hierarchical substructure? Run arbitrary JS code from > a pdf? (Which, btw, is *not* the "official" JS, but Adobe's own > hackneyed version thereof.) If you were insane enough, I bet you could > implement an OS inside a pdf file. Or an FPS. >
I wonder if you could embed this in a PDF.... http://bellard.org/jslinux/
